A CYCLIST aged 68 was killed at around 11.15am yesterday on the N-332 at
the 140km mark near Villajoyosa when a car caught the rear wheel of his
bicycle. The victim was thrown from his bike and was hit by another
vehicle travelling in the same direction.
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THREE GERMAN women were injured in a street in downtown Cadiz today at
around 4.45pm, in a helicopter crash! They were on a photo shoot when a
technical problem forced an emergency landing in El Puerto de Santa
Maria in Cadiz. No one on the ground was hurt.
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A WOMAN was stabbed and killed by her ex-partner at 11pm in the train
station at Lora del Rio, near Seville last night. The Guardia Civil
attended the scene after being alerted by shocked witnesses.
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A PASSENGER on board Thomson flight TOM1269 from Majorca to Newcastle
yesterday plunged the cabin into panic when he attempted to open the
aircraft’s emergency door at 36,000 feet, forcing stewardesses to
wrestle him into a seat and restrain him.
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LIZ BUNCE contacted RTN after reading the
recent story of Hungarian-born Andrea Toth who is suing Torrevieja hospital for
alleged negligence after her husband, Germán González, died following a
supposedly simple operation. Read the full story...

THE BRITISH Consul, Paul Rodwell, used the opening of a new media centre
in Orihuela Costa this week to announce his backing of a new youth
initiative aimed at getting young people in the area to do something
positive ‘for themselves’.
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22.09.2011

THE PAUL Cunningham Nurses charity is well into its third year of operation and this week saw the official opening of its third charity shop, located on Avenida Londres 1 in La Marina Urbanisation. More than 50 people attended the event on Wednesday evening including the charity’s president, Jennifer…
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22.09.2011

CURIOSITY ABOUNDS in the Jalon valley as the site of the former
restaurant La Pista receives a makeover. However, all will be revealed
when the doors of Miquel’s Restaurante and Bar officially open on
Saturday, 1st October.
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RTN Property

19.09.2011

THERE IS an old saying - ‘you should never judge a book by its cover’.
Unfortunately, in an age of instant messaging and even faster download
speeds the intrinsic truth of that old adage seems to be slipping ever
further away. We make instant decisions on a diet of sound-bites and
live TV streams packaged in technology neatly prefixed with the letter
‘I’. It seems the world spins too fast at times for cool consideration.
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RTN Book Review

19.09.2011

JO NESBØ is Norwegian and his text has been translated effortlessly and
flawlessly by a man named Dob Bartlett. I say flawlessly because it
reads like an English whodunit written in a very personal style that
found me at one with the hero, Inspector Harry Hole, as he suffers
professional embarrassment – he shoots a US Secret Service agent who’s
where he shouldn’t be during a state visit – and gets little sympathy
from his bosses as he struggles to convince them that a rare
high-calibre rifle smuggled into the country is of a type favoured by
assassins.
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RTN Gardening

19.09.2011

Parcent Autumn Charity Fair - Just had an email to say that the Parcent Autumn Charity Fair organised for tomorrow and Sunday is cancelled. A pity for the charities that would have benefited. It was also to have been a launch of our new book Living Well from Our Mediterranean Garden which was printed this week. A number of suppliers of useful garden products had given us products to give to visitors to our stand, especially those that purchase books for their own use or presents. We…
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RTN Motoring

21.09.2011

Who’s kiddin’ who - I AM writing a book – it’s entitled ‘Who's Kiddin’ Who’ and is about
women over 40 that come to Spain, dye their hair blonde and get the
obligatory tattoo (usually a rose on the ankle or shoulder) then to top
it off they squeeze their cellulite-encrusted fat bottoms into clothes
designed for a teenager.
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GOLF COURSES are busy at the moment, which of course is great news - most of the special offers have finished but prices with the RTN Discount Card are really good. Any offers that come through after sanding or ‘hollow tining’ will be shown…
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WE ARE now seeing the arrival of groups from the UK and Ireland as well as the return of the over-wintering Scandinavians on our golf courses. The arrival of the golf high season puts a lot of pressure on the courses to commercialise and yet maintain…
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THE SEASON when our local golf clubs begin to take advantage is upon us again. Price rises will come in for the month of October at a lot of courses and also in November for the really popular establishments. This outright greed should be fought against…
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AS THE high summer temperatures are a thing of the past and flight and
car hire prices reduce, October is seen by local courses as a honey trap
to attract tourist golfers to the area but there are a few autumn deals
available before then.
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THIS WEEK’S match was the first of the team matches in a series of four matches between Rods and Reels and Abbey Anglers. The overall winning team will be decided on weight. The venue for the match was the now infamous Embalse de Ojos, Blanca.…
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ITV ORIHUELA RFC got the great news that they had been waiting for when it was confirmed that they will be playing this season in the Murcia league. This means that the club will be playing a lot more league matches and at a higher level of rugby; a…
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MID-SEPTEMBER sees the end of many summer deals and the on-set of serious hollow tining for many courses. The hollow tining period continues and the next few weeks see work commence at Alhama (signature), Las Ramblas, Saurines and Villamartin.…
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ADMITTEDLY, ENGLAND’S opening game in the Rugby World Cup was something of a disappointment. Whilst it was always going to be an arm wrestle against an ageing but savvy Argentinean XV, England weren’t exactly overflowing with ideas in the…
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THIS WEEK’S match, the first of the 2011/2012 season, was held on the
Eden canal stretch of the Rio Segura. The river was moving at pace and
was up by about 18 inches. The fish were very finicky as reflected in
the weights.
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WE SEE many strange things happening on the golf courses of South East Spain and the longer we play the more we learn. One of the strangest I see is a single player on a golf course. Why does the single golfer think he or she has a right to go anywhere…
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THIS WEEK I bring you a short and sweet report of the current green fee offers in the Torrevieja area. Time constraints will allow me to do no more this week as I am very busy with exciting new developments in the world of the Hound and MurciaGolf.co…
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RTN Technology

21.09.2011

THIS WEEK the Inspector is pushing the edges of sanity with a pair of truly bonkers domestic gadgets. Previously in this column we´ve made excursions into, and beyond, the boundaries of what could…
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RTN Money

22.09.2011

WHAT A minefield trying to select an insurance company to go with in Spain. Offers on the UK television re: insurance are endless and it is easy to forget that we live in Spain with different rules and…
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RTN Mailbox

15.09.2011

IMAGINE THAT for 70 consecutive nights of the summer you were told that there would be a band playing in the street until late into the night. 70 nights of having to close the doors to the summer…
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